Thanks for watching guys! Is there a weapon more revolutionary than the STG-44? If so, what is it? Let me know down in the comments! Do you want to come to Texas and be one of the first people to shoot the AK-50? Every $5 donated is another entry to win a trip to San Antonio to shoot the AK-50, then cameo in an AK-50 video! You can donate here: brandonherreraforcongress.com Thanks to SDI! Again, it’s SDI.edu for more info!
I just love how Brandon's response to people calling him a neo-nazi is to do yet another video on ww2 german weaponry. Really the most mature response possible in my opinion.
First time ever watching his channel. Saw this in my feed. Thought "Fuck yeah this looks interesting"... spent the first 3 minutes watching a guy shoot guns and cry about "being cancelled" (He's not cancelled he literally just came up in my feed?).... idk its weirdo vibes. I recommend Demolition Ranch! wayyyyyy better content imho
@@danielsanroman9559 He is running for a government position in Texas, so being cancelled is bigger then just RU-vid... Demolition Ranch would also not agree with your take, they are friends.
I'm not subscribe to this channel, but even youtube place it on recommendation for me.. so who cares about haters. Dude made a good video about historical gun.
Ernie knows his next move. He's going to eat corn the long way then use the cob to wipe. It gives a little tickle that makes Ernie moan even louder as he wipes
People need to divide the art of making guns and who they were used by, yes Nazis are terrible- but the guns are cool and that's the point of the video.
German Fan here! I was waiting for this Episode, especially because my paternal Grandpa is now 104 Years old and i watch your Videos with him (he learned english after the War helping NATO). He fought on the Eastern Front and even got to use the STG-44 starting in August 1944. He still keeps telling me to go to and i quote "Texas, and shoot some of these Guns, i'm sure the Americans will be happy to have you." I served with the Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23 in Afghanistan (2 Tours) and 1 Tour in Kosovo. Never had the Chance to shoot an original STG-44. Only the High Quality Semi-Auto Reproductions that are also legal here in Germany. Anyway Brandon! You do have a German WW2 Eastern and Western Front Veteran who's 104 Years old now as a loyal Fan of your Videos! Prost & Cheers from Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps
Here in the US, the .22LR reproductions are fairly available, but the 8mm Kurtz reproductions are very rare and super expensive. Was the gun you shot in the original caliber? How does it handle?
@@conscript900 Still waiting for that PSA repro in 7.62x39. Figure that’d be the closest to the original while still being relatively easy to get ammo.
"My opponent, Brandon Herrera, is a neo-confederate and a neo-Nazi." "...So anyway, here's the German World War 2 progenitor to the modern assault rifle."
I know STG44 gets all the fame for being first to define the category of storm rifle, but spec wise, the US M1 Carbine clocks in pretty well. There was a select fire full auto version, there were 30 round magazines, and the cartridge wasn't really a pistol cartridge, it was beefier than that at about 1900fps while pushing a .30 caliber projectile. Okay, so that may be a bit feeble relative to intermediate rifle cartridge rounds that are well over 2000 fps, but again, it's punchier than the sub machine gun pistol cartridges. I think the main reason that the M1 Carbine won't win any votes as being the first in the category of storm rifle is simply because it has the looks of a traditional military battle rifle. The STG44 has the very cool looks with the pistol grip and all - and above all, because its German.
There's the "pearl clutchers are silly and annoying" angle, which his sympathisers can enjoy. However, there is also the "strong men make good times" angle, and the associated "weak men make hard times" angle. That's the _important_ angle, but it's a little harder to condense into a catch phrase or a meme. Some priming of the audience and setup for the punchline required...
It really does even the pistol grip is already designed in a way that you can reach the fire selecter with you thumb changing from safety to semi to full auto without taking your hand of the grip
Not gonna lie, I like the Mkb42(H) compared to the StG 44, considering shape-wise. Mainly the much more solid shape of the barrel and the underbarrel, just looks clean.
Well. He already was conspired to be a commie by tony because he had a soviet flag on his workshop and has..... You guessed it, AKs.@@omegasarchangel7109
The electric guitar version of the German anthem is CRAZY (The modern German and old Austro-Hungarian anthems have the same BPM just like the Russian, British, and German Empires did in WW1)
Seeing that the AR ejection port cover was stolen remined me of that old software engineering joke. dude 1: "I stole your code" dude 2: "It wasn't my code"
Like 85% of programming is finding someone else who has had that problem and stealing their shit then lumping it in with the rest of the stolen solutions.
@@kugelblitz1557 Open source is just people saying "I know your going to steal it anyway and it's too much of a hassle to deal with it so F-it, just don't lie about where you took it from ... please?"
@@benjaminshropshire2900 pretty much. Works very well for me doing game development, I have no fucking clue what I'm doing and my only coding experience at work is using iLogic so I scroll through forums for other people who had the issue, figure out how the hell it all works together and then find a way to shove it into my game code.
@@benjaminshropshire2900 pretty much. Honestly I don't like it when something isn't open source. I'm not going to take your whole application and steal it to rebrand as my own but I really want to take it apart and see how it ticks, so having documentation on that would be nice.
Seriously, I'm going to need a head count of these "ladies". Just to see if my grammar nazi tendencies were correct. (all puns used in this comment are intentional)
I stumbled upon your videos a few times in the past, but never paid much attention until now. The StG44 is what got me here, because i also think it's a fascinating piece of history but what made me stay for the entire video is... The humor. Absolutely killed me and i want more. Also, your commentary and explanations are solid. Easy to understand, passionate and proffesional. Here, catch a sub, although for a channel with almost 3,5mil subs it's miniscule and unnoticable.
As much as I like the STG-44 design, it's not as good as the AK system for scaling. Not worth even trying in my opinion. The tilt-lockup is a pure no-go. From what I can tell, the STG-44 really WAS just an up-scaled SMG style system, vs the AK system, which was pretty much designed for rifle fun from the ground up.
As a german I am pretty sure, Hugo Schmeisser didn't say "hold my stout" but "halt mein Bier". Reinheitsgebot after all still means something to us. As someone with a special interest in history and firearms, I'd love to see more Wunderwaffen: try and get your hands on a FG 42 or G43 if you can. If it is a G43 you'll get your hands on: try to find the unicorn: G43 with 30 round mag and full auto. Greetings from Bremen *_crawls back into Valentin U-Boot bunker_*...
Glad the war ended when it did, Germans were creating some next level shit. (Me-262, P1000 Ratte behemoth tanks, and fooling around with “gadgets” in Antarctica 👀) but then again, would America have used the AB on Germany? Leaves you wondering what would’ve happened if the war carried on for 3-4 more years
@@arrowgunt bullshit. The Reinheitsgebot allows only Water, malt, hops and yeast. everything else is not allowed to make beer according to the Reinheitsgebot. Next time inform yourself before talking bullshit.
@@kti5682 how so? The melody is old enough. Germans also don’t sing a certain section of their anthem anymore because it’s forbidden by law. That, of course, has to do with the Germans and their twisted relationship with their country’s history.
@@epultimastThe forbidden Song, the Horst Wessel Lied, was only part of the anthem between 33 to 45. The anthem now used is the thrid section of the Lied der Deutschen, Song of the Germans. Part 1 and 2 are legal but they are not the anthem and you will probably be seen as a neonazi if you aing them.
When I served in the Norwegian armed forces, we used a rifle called AG-3, license produced in Norway from H&K G3. That rifle has some similarities whit the STG-44. Its 7.62 NATO though. Would love to see that on the channel. Really powerfull rifle.
Funny thing about the STG: German High Command loved the gun so much they literally made an entirely new infantry formation surrounding the weapon and the new tactics it allowed. The German “Volksgrenadier” division template was laid down in 1944 to utilize the last manpower and heavy equipment reserves that the Germans really had before they got REALLY desperate. A lot of people confuse the Volksgrenadiers with the later Volkssturm; however, the Volkssturm were the literal last ditch militia of old men and young boys while the Volksgrenadiers were a dedicated frontline unit. Volksgrenadiers had entire “storm squads” that were outfitted with the STGs plus a light machine gun for dedicated to assaulting enemy positions, and a fire support squad with rifles, STGs, and 2 LMGs for suppressing targets while the storm squads advanced. This weapon didn’t just revolutionize firearms, it revolutionized the way infantry formations fought. Great video Brandon! Look forward to your upcoming election!
Except that's exactly the line of thought for how the late war soviet infantry squads functioned. They increased the numbers of SMG's per squad and retained one or two LMG's. The germans originally skimped on MP-40s and had more LMG's. The Volksgrenadiers were a move towards the Soviet style infantry units that were out matching them in the close quarters of late war urban battles.
@@JohnSmith-lf4be primarily the MG 42 and MG 34. The Germans had this concept of a universal machine gun, where one gun could do the jobs of a light or heavy machine gun depending on how it was configured. For example: the MG 42 with its 50 round detachable drum magazines and a bipod would be considered a light machine gun, while the same MG but mounted on a tripod and using larger ammo belts would be considered a heavy machine gun.
@@Elatenl Not always. Sometimes it took time, trial, and error to catch up with the said weapons. The US Civil War and the First World War are great examples where many revolutionary advances in firearms were made, but the tactics to use them were fairly slow to catch up.
Hey brother, went thru the same thing over a decade ago. Biggest piece of advice I can give ya is take your time. Do not rush your physical therapy. Follow their directions and don't expect unrealistic results. Take every win you get with movement and avoid surgery for as long as possible. The moment they cut you open, nothing will ever be the same. Do as much physio as you can to get as much movement back as you can.
I admit, I was one of those "Call of Duty" kids that thought the STG44/MP44 was the predecessor to the AK47, but videos like this one taught me that I was wrong. These videos are fun and educational, and are definitely a nice little treat. Thanks again, future Congressman Herrera!
As far as i know, its all a mix: •Mechanism: inspired by the M1 garand Curved detachable magazine: inspired by the STG Rear sight located in the mid: inspired by others semi-auto rifles of those times (SVT,AVT, Gewerh 43, SKS) Mid-caliber cartridge: STG again
It's awesome the way Brandon broke this down because you can see the inspiration kalashnikov (hope I spelled that right) and Stoner took from this in their designs and how much is completely different from the stg44 and from each other. I also used to think the AK and stg-44 were closer.
8:51 THANK YOU for clearing that up! I have a lot of friends who are into guns just as much as I am and they still have that misconception stuck in their heads.
Man Brandon, I'm a 73 year old Texas veteran and I love your channel!! I'm a history buff myself and I REALLY LIKE learning about the weapons that our "modern" weapons are all based on. I'm, also, a very staunch supporter of your bid for the Congressional seat in district 23!! I'm just up the road here in district 15 so I can't vote in the runoff between you and the RINO goonzalez but I can damn sure support you whenever I can!! BRANDON HERRERA FOR CONGRESS IS GONNA BE A TOTAL UPSET FOR THE "POWERS WHO "THINK?" THEY HAVE A LOCK ON WASHINGTON"!!!!! They gonna be in for a massive shock and they gonna lose their freaking little bitty minds!!
May 29, I read the news today. They called you an extremist, a youtuber. We called you a constitutionalist, an inventor, a genuinely funny guy who spoke truth. Thanks for all your effort. Thanks to the thousands from Texas 23rd district who voted for you. Respect from Iowa
Your boldness on uploading this just a day before election demonstrates your resolve and confidence on what means to be a true politician who serves the people above any other interests. You have my support.
As a Brit and an ex serviceman I appreciate the historical, practical and engineering aspects of fire arms. I also understand the need for practical gun laws. Your shows are educational and fun. I have had the honour and pleasure of turning live rounds into empty cased all over the globe. The same thing is true the world over: Training, Skill, Respect, and Responsibilty of gun users is essential. Where any one of the above is missing... something truly sad occurs. Your show should be apolitical.... but hey.... you can't have everything ;)
the original name was not stg 44. it started as Maschinenkarabiner 42(automatic carbine 1942). they changed it to maschinenpistole 43&44(automatic pistol 1943&1944) to continue development after Hitler vetoed it. then after field trials Hitler acknowledged its worth and named it the sturmgewehr 44 to intimidate Germany's enemies.
Hitler's involvement in naming the stg 44 is disputed, however I am inclined to believe he was involved. Up until stg 44 the german engineers used very mechanically descriptive names. Additionally it means the next time a Karen complains about assault weapons you can accurately accuse them of using nazi propaganda that was started directly by hitler.
@@koutetsusama2498sturmgewehr is translated to StormRifle and Sturm in this instance is related to the word stürmen wich basically means to push into a building or something :D
Hey Brandon just wanted to say thanks I was involved in a self defense shooting back in august and you and the unsubscribe guys have really helped me through a hard time but I have since been cleared of all wrong doing and I’m doing a lot better since then thank you
I read somewhere that the StG44 was produced and sent to the front against Hitler's explicit will. Hitler didn't want an extra caliber introduced (because of already strained logistics), so he had halted the project. Meeting one of his generals on the Eastern front, Hitler asked the general what they needed. The general then replied: "More of the great new rifles!" Hitler replied: "What new rifle?"
imagine fielding an entire new weapons platform under the nose of the toothstache himself. Those guys had some fucking balls... okay, maybe not the best turn of phrase given the context, but still.
I saw the MP44 on television when the 1965 movie "the Battle of the Bulge" was broadcast. I've used the term "assault rifle" since the early 1970's--an "assault gun" was a cannon mounted on a tracked armored vehicle. When you mentioned that you shot the White Claw at pistol distance, I remembered about range. The MP44 did have the same effective range as the KAR98k due to several factors: most riflemen were not expert riflemen, rack-grade rifles and ammunition are not match-grade, and the enemy (aka "targets") won't cooperate by standing still in the open where they can be easily shot. The rifles and cartridges are usually capable of longer range than 200 meters or 300 meters, and if you are choosey about ammo and tune your rifle, it can do amazing things. The famous M1 Garand rifle's minimum acceptance was firing three 10-shot groups with the largest group no more than five inches spread at 100 yards, though I forgot what the average of three groups was. In a perfect world a barely passing M1 Rifle would put a 15" pattern on a 300-yard target and a 25" pattern at 500 yards. The US Army was searching for a self-loading rifle while perfecting the M1903 Rifle ("Springfield") and John Browning produced his famous BAR. Browning made it select fire because he could, and his first prototypes made about 1912 fired from a closed bolt for semiautomatic fire accuracy. When the US went to war, the Army wanted a light machine gun and Browning redesigned the BAR to fire from the open bolt position so that a high volume of automatic fire was practical--high volume meaning that one BAR could fire as many bullets in a minute as an entire squad of riflemen armed with the M1903. Problem--the Army wanted its riflemen to be able to pour fire out in excess of a half-mile range. Point targets (19" diameter for reference) was the goal but firing out as far as 1600 yards in company-size firing lines with single shot rifles worked previously. An area target is 33 feet in diameter. Because the Army wanted to use its powerful super cartridge that we call the .30-06 today the BAR started off at 16 pounds weight and was very expensive--one BAR could put out the firepower of a squad armed with Springfields, and the cost of one BAR would buy Springfields for the entire squad. In the light machine gun role, the BAR weighed something like 22 pounds and that extra beef was required to keep the BAR from beating itself to death in automatic fire. France fielded both its Chauchat automatic rifle and two models of semiautomatic rifles during the Great War. One of the jobs the M1 Rifle had was replacing the BAR. Attempts to convert the M1 Rifle to select fire (because in real wars automatic fire is useful) failed because the .30-06 was too powerful. The French had that problem with the Chauchat. The USSR had select-fire rifles shooting the old M1891 cartridge, the 7.62x54mmR. Even Germany attempted the 7.92x57mm automatic rifle route and failed. Two problems when the lightweight select fire rifle fired a cartridge in the 30-06 or 7.62x51mm NATO class cropped up--the recoil made it difficult to keep bursts on point targets, and the combination of powerful cartridge battering lightweight rifle resulted in malfunctions and the rifle receiver going out of spec and falling apart prematurely. Both the M14 and FAL shared those problems. The MP44 was a revolutionary weapon. For close combat, the MP44 could function like a submachine gun, only with more power and range. And in "single shot mode" the MP44's accuracy was no worse than the KAR98K in average hands. Range testing wasn't real world. Pistols in combat were effective at sword and bayonet distance. Submachine guns were effective at what was thought to be pistol distances--50 meters. Rifles and light machine guns were effective inside 200 meters, though the average soldier shooting at enemy soldiers in combat had trouble achieving 50% hits at 100 meters or less, a state of affairs that motivated the British Army to experiment with combat shotguns during the Malay Emergency. The MP44 had flaws and quirks, but the "underpowered cartridge" wasn't one of the shortcomings.
MP44 can't be considered a revolutionary weapon simply because it was an attempt to counter Soviet PPSh-41 and PPS submachine guns. It's a follow-up weapon.
@@tatianapreobrazhenskaya9777 PPSh-41 and PPS evolved from the MP-18-I and all had open-bolt firing systems relying on bolt mass to keep the chamber closed until chamber pressure dropped. Scaling up the PPS-43 to fire the 7.62x39mm cartridge would be impractical due to the required bolt mass, and the resulting bullet sprayer would have less accuracy and precision than the AK-47. Both MP-44 used a locked-breech firing system that was operated by tapping some of the expanding propellant gasses to unlock and push the bolt back, permitting higher operating pressures. the Browning Automatic Rifle and other guns dating back to the 1890's used the same concepts, but the full-power smokeless infantry rifle cartridge made the resulting select-fire rifle bulky and heavy--or fragile. It was the cartridge and gas system that made the AK-47 different from the PPS-43, and made the MP44 different from the MP-38. Evolution versus revolution--you be the judge. Was the self-contained metallic cartridge an evolution from loose powder and ball ignited by a match lock or was it a revolution?
Just wanted to congratulate Brandon on the election. As a complete outsider, you forced the election into a runoff and forced Tony to barely eke out a victory with 51% of the vote. That is huge. A complete outsider making the election come that close while spending only a fraction of the money, it’s gonna force the career politicians to pay attention to us. Thank you for taking on this endeavor and campaigning for our rights Brandon.
It was so close and comparing the turnout from the first election it's obvious who has more popularity. Tony had only half as many votes while Brandon gained more than before.
How does this shit not set alarm bells ringing in people's heads? They're all but TELLING you "hey, your politicians are bought and paid for" AIPAC should be registered under FARA as a foreign entity and Israel sanctioned for meddling in our elections.
Brandon, good luck on your primary tomorrow. Whatever happens, please stay involved and continue your campaign. America needs a new generation of leaders like you and I.
Will this video officially count as a campaign move? If so it's going to go down as a master stroke or an epic blunder. (And that's even if it has no impact at all.)
This totally won’t be edited and taken out of context to call Brandon a certain type of German soldier from a specific time period. Gotta love this man!
Brandon, I’m really sorry you didn’t win the primary, man. I’m not even a Texas resident, I live in Massachusetts. But you’re a really upstanding guy and you did all the right things to get you in the spot to challenge authority. For that, I respect the mother-loving hell out of you. I look forward to more content from you and I hope you and people in your state continue to challenge politicians despite this outcome.
The one thing I never hear anyone mention about the STG-44 is just how cool it sounds in full auto! I think it's one of the most instantly recognizable gun sounds. Awesome video Brandon, and I have to say I admire your huge cajones to go on video telling your opponents to go fock themselves.
I can just see "Tony's" social media team. "That's a German gun, right? It sounded German! That means it's evil! Brandon is evil for firing it!" "I don't know if it's German! I don't know anything about guns!" "Who ordered the avocado sassy mocha with rainbow sprinkles?" *Whole team raises hand. Short pause. Slap fight begins.*
Funny how the firerate of StG-44 is considered slow today, but back in the 40's the sounds of it go full auto would give you PTSD, just like the MG-42 bursts. We truly have evolved
Can you do a video on firearm cleaning and maintenance? How you clean extremely dirty weapons/ setting them up for storage. Basically the whole process you follow/ tools you use?
The development of the STG actually goes back a few years with several earlier variants. Forgotten Weapons has videos on the Mkb-42, the MP43 (of which there is more than one), and the post war Stg-45, where the designers were "asked" to help the Allies see if any of the ideas Germany hadn't been able to test were any good.
I get satisfaction out of the fact that Tony's interns are likely required to sit through these whole videos, probably multiple times, to find stuff they can use in their out of context collections.
“I’m somewhat of an AK guy myself” You’re not somewhat of an AK guy you are the AK guy. You are the king of all AK guys and gals. You changed the caliber of the AK to one of the most destructive rounds ever; .50.
The stamped technology going into it is also insane. I think there was a breakdown on forgotten weapons about how hard it would be to recreate the stamped parts the same way the germans did. 20 years of r & d was throw around.
Heckler & Koch actually did a calculation on restarting the production of the StG 44 as the German Bundeswehr was founded, tooling and everything. Was way too expensive though, setting up for producing the Cetme battle rifle - the G3 to be - was much cheaper.
Brandon Herrera, AKA AK Jesus, has built his name, business, channel, and overall fame on loving weapons from The Communist Block. Tony Gonzalez's Team never ONCE calls him a Communist. Sees one video with a historic weapon from WW2, immediately calls him a Nazi. Maybe they don't want to use "Communist" as an insult. Might upset their owners...err...handlers...err...friends. Yeah, friends.
5:00 little corrections here: 1. H. was less into SMG's and favored more semi auto "battle rifles". The G43 was developed largely on his input. 2. his main objection to the StG concept was actually somewhat reasonable, especially under the conditions at the time. This thing required a new type of ammunition, 2000 bullets per month of it for every solider issued one of those (which turned out to be the bottleneck, not the production of guns). Now take into account how ... interesting Germany's supply lines were already in 43/44 and one can easily see where the objection came from.
That actually makes a lot more sense, I always found the whole "he just didn't like it because not SMG and he's arrogant asf" to be a bad explanation. This certainly does make a lot more sense though.
Yes exactly. To put into more context, it was during 1942-1943 that the StG program got its introduction and soon Hitler's objection. At this same period the German Wehrmacht was operating deep inside USSR, for their crucial Case Blue Campaign and subsequent battle leading up to Kursk, with supply chains constantly stretched terribly thin, with Stalingrad and Caucasus battles being the worst offender. There was simply no way this new weapon could even make it to the most important battles there, and Hitler was right it would only messed up the overburden logistics there. By 1944 though, the supply distance was much more shorter and more production facilities was set up, the logistic concern was lessened to some degree and Hitler thus promoted the weapons then in a more suitable moment.
Fun thing I hope someone sees. The 8mm is named Kurz, as Kurz means short in Deutsch. So they took the Mauser 8mm and shortened it to be an intermediate cartridge.
Fun facts about the STG 44: Officially, it was issued as the "Assault Pistol" to troops. The main force behind continuing production and mass issue of the STG 44 was Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments. While hitler was initially furious about being overruled, he eventually came to appreciate the gun after hearing how good it was from troops in the field. Take these with a grain of salt though as these come from the memoirs of Albert Speer.
Documents back that up, with it being known as the MP43 and MP-44 before eventually being renamed STG-44. STG was the original proposed designation but Hitler shot it down
@@SnowStorm-Yeti Very true. As we learned with the FG 42 development, while an 8mm Kurtz solution was more reasonable, Hitler demanded a light gun that could be carried by the paratroops. He would then go on to want similar guns for all branchs of the armed forces when the Gewher 41 and 43 were in development
My uncle is a Mike Johnson fan, after I told him how he had come to support your rino opponent, over a true patriot, my uncle admitted it made him lose some respect for Johnson. Keep up the good work man, im rooting for you all the way from Michigan.
"I call this one the journalist" forgot to cry after, say the sound was deafening, and then go to the hospital to get casts put on his wrists from "uncontrollable" recoil
The first ever assault rifle in the world is the Fedorov Avtomat not STG44, it was made by Vladimir Grigoryevich Fyodorov in 1913 and the gun was on service in 1916 but it was produced very limited and very late and around 100 Fedorov Avtomat before the end of the Russian Empire, then the production of the Fedorov Avtomat was halted in October 1925. Only 3,200 Fedorovs were manufactured between 1915 and 1925
@@zacharyrollick6169 Him getting either version is probably like 0.000001% Let's be real. If anyone does have one, it'll be in a private museum or something. Last time I saw anyone show it off it was built off new and old parts. (I'm guessing people wanna see it shoot on a Brandon video)
The Journalist, classic. The only thing missing was a scooe with an eye pressed firmly against it, and the subsequent black eye and idiot cut. Oh, and the resulting PTSD from the loud noise and "crippling recoil."
Hi Brandon, you don't know me however we are closely related. I was married to your uncle Henry, your mom was my sister in law. I'm so proud of your congressional bid and how close you came. Don't stop.
The Germans (and especially the Nazis) loved the term "sturm." They used it in a lot of different contexts. Units, both friendly and sometimes even enemy, were sometimes designated "sturm" formations which meant they were capable of assaults. One of the most common German combat armored vehicles of the war was the SturmGeschutz, which was used in all theaters for the duration of the war 1939-45. The name translates to "assault gun" and in armored fighting vehicle circles the term is used widely, not just for German vehicles, but for the Soviet SU-122, for instance.
